Carbureter.



T. 0. WlNGER.

CARBURETER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB-9,1915.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

THEODORE O. WINGER, 0F AMERY, WISCONSIN.

'CARBUREVTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Application filed February 9, 1915. Serial No. 7,054.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, THnoooRn O. XVINGER, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Amery, in the county of Polk and State of \Visconsin,have invented a new and Improved Carbureter, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to apparatus for producing an explosive orcombustible mixture of air and gasolene, or like fluid, hereinafterreferred to'as gasolene, for use in internal combustion engines, and forother-purposes.

My invention is based on the fact that air will take up gasolene andlike fluids and become thereby carbureted by contact with the gasoleneeither in passing over the surface thereof; over and against the surfaceof fibrous or absorbent material saturated with the gasolene, or bybeing discharged into a body of gasolene below the surface thereof.

Prime objects of my invention are to provide a device whereby effectivecontact with lit) the gasolene will be brought about, and to provided adevice of the indicated character having provision for adjustment tovary the contact surface between .the air and gasolene or the period ofcontact whereby to vary the character of the mixture as to its richness.

A further object of the invention is to provide a structural embodimentof the in vention, of extremely simple form, which will have a-widerange of adjustment and which may. be adjusted with facility.

' Other objects and advantages of the invention. will appear from themore particular description following.

Reference is hr to the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification, in which similar characters of reference in dicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which:

Figure l is a side elevation of a carbureter embodying my invention;Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section; and Fig. 3 is. a transversevertical section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In constructing a practical embodiment of my invention in accordancewith the illustrated example, a reservoir 10 is provided of suitablecontent to give the desired capacity in a given case, said reservoirbeing adapted to contain a body of gasolene A, or similar fluid. An airinlet pipe 11 leads into the reservoir 10 at OIlBl side and extends asat 11 transversely of the reservoir, to and through the opposite side asshown-in Fig.

of the inlet pipe. The reservoir 10 has an outlet 15 for carbureted airand the deflector 14: is arranged to direct the air into contact withthe body of gasolene A between the inlet 11 and the said outlet. Thedeflector is widened from the inlet toward the outlet,

which may be effected by flaringlthe upper and lower walls thereof, asshown best in Fig. 4, and in order to vary the effective area of theoutlet the deflector 14 is adapted to be regulated, by means hereinafterdescribed, to cause itsj outlet end to beaimmersed to a greater or lessextent below the surface of the gasolene A, thereby varying the outletpassage for the air between the surface of the gasolene and the upperwall of the deflector.

Preferably I provide .in the deflector 14: adjacent to its outlet end ascreen 16 which may consist of a mass of fabric, or the like, or fibrousmaterial sufliciently absorbent to take up the gasolene by capillaryaction when the lower portion of the screen material is immersed.

The means for maintaining the rockable deflector 14 at differentinclinations to the surface of the gasolene may consist of the followingdevices: At one end the deflector is formed, as shown in Fig. 3, with atubular extension or sleeve 14 fitting the projecting terminal of thebranch 11 on the inlet pipe inward from the cap 12. On said sleeve 14*is securedan arm 17 which is formed with a collar 18 surrounding thesleeve and detachably secured to the latter by a set screw 19, or thelike. Thearm 17 has a sliding weight 20 having a set'screw 21 to hold itin ad usted position on the said arm 17 By the described constructionthe leverage of the weighted arm may be increased or decreased tocounter-balance the deflector H at any given inclination, as willreadily be understood.

The deflector 14 may have a float chamber 22 at the outlet end at theunderside whereby to give the deflector more or less buoyancy when thelower end is submerged, and there- Copies of this patent may be obtainedfor by assist in facilitating the counterbalancing of the deflector at agiven angle.

With my improved carbureter it will be seen that the richness of themixture will, to-

some extent, depend on the size of the reservoir and thus on thedistance between the deflector 1% and the outlet end of the reservoir,but the richness of the mixture may be 'very effectively regulated byvarying the submergence of the outlet end and its screen 16. Thus aparticular mixture tO SUIt rev quired conditions may be producedaccording to the intended use of the mixture for internal combustionengines or other pur-- poses.

Having thus described my invent1on,-What I claim as new and desire tosecure byLet tors Patent, is:

A carbureter coinprisinga reservo r hav- -member of'the air inlet pipe,and having an outlet near its lower end, and a variable "counter-balancearm on the said deflector outside the reservoir serving tocounterbalance the deflector at various inclinations.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specificatlon 1n thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

THEODORE o. WINGER.

Witnesses:

O. G. vDAHLs'rRoM,

- V. H. CLANTERSEN.

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